> This is no joke: I was mentally going over a list
of> fixers> and damn if I could understand why they do what
they> do.> Don't tell me it was nobility of character: that's
a> rare> quality and I don't see why fixers would have
more> than the> general population.

I was going to stay out of this thread, but this comment is a
perfect example of why over-analysis can cause one to miss
the obvious.

"Fixers," to use your term for those who set things right in
a tough colloquial fashion, have greater nobility of
character than the general population for the clear and
simple reason that they are heroes and it is in the nature of
heroes to have greater nobility of character than the general
population.

Nobility of character aside, "fixers" do what they do because
doing what they do is their vocation, and when what one does
is a vocation, he doesn't argue about it. He just does
it.

JIM DOHERTY

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